Monday, February 18, 2008

My mom believes that a cookie without chocolate is always better for you than one that contains chocolate. I don't know where she got that idea, but I learned long ago not to argue with her on this point (as well as many other points). Anyways, she likes these oatmeal coconut walnut cookies and doesn't mind if my niece and nephews have more than one cookie at a time. As the name implies, these cookies have oatmeal (grain), coconut (fruit) and walnuts (good fat, some protein), but they also have lots of butter and sugar. I'm not really complaining since butter and sugar are the cornerstones of a super yummy cookie. This time I made the cookies following the recipe but in the past I've also made them with chopped chocolate in place of half of the walnuts. But please don't tell my mom.

38 comments:

This is my favortie oatmeal raisin cookie recipe. Normally I don't even like oatmeal raisin cookies, but I love these! They always get rave reviews. I actually cut out the 1/3 cup granulated sugar and I use chopped pecans instead.

This made me laugh Mary because I am always saying something is healthy if it has bittersweet chocolate but not other chocolates. They look yummy. We will try them (and add bittersweet chocolate !!) Clarice

Your story about your Mom and chocolate is soo cute! I am also sure that your Niece and Nephew adored the cookies with or without the chocolate. They DO look absolutely delicious! =DShandy@Pastry Heaven

These cookies were enough to get me out of bed and into the kitchen after a long week of battling the flu!

I'm baking the rest up right now and they are delicious! Really homey; perfect for cheering up dampened spirits.

I made a half-batch, and added 3/4 c. of butterscotch chips, as a few people suggested. I love the added flavors it takes on with the coconut and walnuts too. That really tranforms it from your traditional oatmeal cookie.

I love to bake "healthy" cookies and breads. It makes me feel like a better mom. These cookies look really good. I have Tish Boyle's cookbook but I haven't opened it in a long time. Maybe I should do that!

I made these cookies and absoulutely loved them. I found that it was a bit short on the dough to hold everything together, though. I only changed one ingredient (Shortening vs. butter). Maybe that's the issue ( I am abit of a novice). If not, are there any thoughts to increasing other ingredients.

Made these tonight. I needed to make some cookies for a charity function, so I Googled walnut and coconut, which I had in my cupboard, and came upon this recipe. The only things I changed were: I was out of vanilla extract so I substituted some vanilla flavoring like they pump in your coffee at Starbucks that someone had given me, (I know, random, right?) I was also out of brown sugar so I substituted in white sugar plus one tbsp molasses, which worked great. Lastly, I added a bit of nutmeg. The dough is pretty dry, so my daughter and I found it easier to roll the dough in balls, then flatten them a bit. Short story long, my kids thought they were great, and we will definitely make them again. They are also a perfect carrying cookie as they are pretty sturdy and don't crumble easily. Thanks for sharing this delicious recipe.

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